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GeoInformatics-7-2009
article cially when carrying out building height estimation). for the question of which method is more promising? there is no clear opinion among those who were interviewed. the financial crisis and the sector this hot topic was part of the survey in which our team investigated the effects the current financial conditions have had on the exhibitors. we formulated our questionnaire with the keywords financial crisis . referring to the current crisis, our survey showed that the gis market has remained largely unaffected. while the construction industry (mainly civil engineering) had a significant drop in business capacity, some gis companies seemed to benefit even more during the crisis. compared to last year at intergeo, it was easy to see that some firms had smaller booths. some companies which had been represented with a stand-alone display in 2008, this year shared the same booth as joint exhibits. it was noticeable that many companies also had fewer visitors from municipalities because of budget constraints in marketing. it is difficult to predict to what extent the financial losses in the public sector will be in the coming years. satellite navigation in satellite positioning and satellite navigation, intergeo was the crossing point for the brand new satellite receivers which are now able to access glonass and the future galileo signals in addition to gps. the positioning accuracy will increase with galileo (europe) and compass (china). these high-tech receivers are able to receive signals from the different navigation systems at the same time, and the requirement for a minimum of four satellites for successful positioning will no doubt improve functionality even in places with high levels of sky obstruction. tant international meeting point, even in difficult times". even though there were not too many eyecatchers, trend analysis of the runder tisch gis shows that 3d was the hottest theme of intergeo this year, sharing the spotlight with laser scanning and web-based applications. we are looking forward to seeing the impact of this outstanding event in industry this year. meanwhile 95% of exhibiting companies, government authorities and associations have already announced their intention to take part in this leading world trade fair in 2010. intergeo 2010 will be held in cologne, in germany from the 5th to the 7th of october. links: intergeo: www.intergeo.de runder tisch gis initiative: www.rtg.bv.tum.de the chair of gis, technische universitat munchen: www.gis.bv.tum.de team members of the trend analysis gmes another important theme this year in intergeo was global monitoring for environment and security (gmes), an initiative for monitoring europe s environment and security concerns. the development of gmes was decided some 10 years ago by the european union as part of the geoss program, the global counterpart of gmes. the objective of gmes is to use satellite observations, together with in-situ observations, to allow a validation of the complementary data. the data of the core services are freely available on the internet. this core service includes the fields of marine, emergency and land which are developed separately. latest news? visit www.geoinformatics.com valuable reflection as usual intergeo was again a valuable reflection of the current state of the industry. the success of the event and the record numbers of exhibitors and visitors (a 22% increase in the proportion of international visitors) prompted dr. hartmut rosengarten, chairman of the intergeo exhibitor advisory board, to make the following statement. "here in karlsruhe, intergeo has once again demonstrated very impressively that it is the industry's most impor- daniel banfi, alexander barschmann, rosina bleifuss, anton gross, martin kunert, daniel moraru, paul sigloch, stefan wanasky, andreas wagner contact: ozgur ertac oezguer.ertac@bv.tum.de and tatjana kutzner tatjana.kutzner@bv.tum.de are research assistants at the chair of gis in technische universitat munchen, in germany. 23 october/november 2009
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